A quote bank for Scrooge at the start, Scrooge's redemption, The Cratchits, Ignorance and Want, Fezziwig and Fred. I used all these quotes to support my revision and learnt them all off by heart and felt super confident walking into the exam, so I hope this helps!
Scrooge at the start:
STAVE ONE (in no particular order) :
- “Squeezing, wrenching… covetous old sinner”
- “As solitary as an oyster”
- “Darkness was cheap and Scrooge liked it”
- “Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?”
- “I wish to be left alone”
- “If they were to die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population”
- “The Treadmill and Poor Law are in full vigour then?”
- “Love… as if it were the only one thing in the world more ridiculous than a merry
Christmas!”
- “Did not thaw one degree at Christmas”
- “No warmth could warm”
- “A time to find yourself a year older and not an hour richer”
- “Warning all human sympathy to keep its distance”
- “A golden idol has displaced me”
OTHER KEY QUOTES ABOUT SCROOGE AT THE START (in no particular order):
- STAVE 2 “The haggard winter of his life”
- STAVE 2 “A solitary child neglected by his friends”
- STAVE 3 “his wealth is of no use to him. He don’t do any good with it”
- STAVE 3 “who suffers by his ill whims. Himself, always”
Jacob Marley:
- “I wear the chains I forged in life”
- “Mankind was my business!”
- “I girded it of my own free will”
Ignorance & Want:
- “Beware the boy… upon his brow written the word Doom”
- “Yellow”, “meagre”, “pinched and twisted”, “Wolfish”
- “They are man’s”
Fred:
- STAVE ONE “his face was ruddy”
- STAVE ONE “I want nothing from you”
- STAVE ONE “It has never put a scrap of gold in my pocket but it has done me good”
- STAVE THREE (Fred’s wife) “laughed as heartily as he”
Fezziwig:
- “Shook hands with every person individually”
- “Shone like moons”
- “The happiness… as if it costs a fortune”
The Cratchits:
- STAVE ONE “fifteen shillings a week, a wife and a family”
- STAVE THREE “They were not well dressed… but they were happy”
- STAVE THREE “As good as gold and better”
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